Synonyms for reimburse
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Verb
1. Refund
compensate, refund, recompense, recoup, repay, indemnify, requite, make whole, remunerate, restitute, satisfy, reprise dated
Other
imburse dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To compensate (someone) with payment; especially, to repay money spent on someone's behalf.
The company will reimburse you for your expenses for the business trip.
Related words
- Word family
- reimbursable reimbursement
- Is a kind of
- compensate pay
Forms
- Past participle
- reimbursed
e.g. reimbursed → compensated, refunded, recompensed, recouped…
Example sentences
- refund They'll refund your money if you're not satisfied.
- repay I only wish there was some way I could repay you.
- recoup He kept on gambling, trying in vain to recoup his losses.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| reimburse | falling | |
| refund | falling | |
| repay | steady | |
| recoup | steady | |
| recompense | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- repay2
- 6 letters
- refund2, recoup2
- 7 letters
- satisfy3, reprise2, requite, imburse
- 9 letters
- indemnify4, restitute3
- 10 letters
- compensate3, recompense3, remunerate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (repay2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- rembourser
- Italiano
- rimborsare
- Español
- reembolsar
- Deutsch
- vergelten